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We are very excited to announce our 13th anniversary party! Rather than just having a regular-ass party, we decided to make this year very special! We are having an art show featuring art from different artists all over this great city of ours. We have also partnered with many local businesses in the short north and around the city as well. With our efforts combined, we will be using this show to raise money for local, not for profit, no kill animal shelter, Pets Without Parents. We are very excited about this, not only for the fact that we are celebrating 13 years of awesome tattoos, but to be able to give back to an organization like this is a true honor.

This event will coincide with the Short North Arts District September Gallery Hop. It will be held on Saturday, September 1st. We will be open that day from noon – 10pm (as we are every day) and the art show/party will be held from 7-10pm.

Here are all of the details:

The money raised from the art at the show will be donated.

We will have a sheet of pre-made tattoo designs to be tattooed all day long. The profits from those tattoos will be donated.

Raffle tickets will be available for purchase (prizes will be listed on this page) to win many different prizes donated by local businesses. Tickets will be $2 each, 3 for $5 or 10 for $10. Winners will be chosen the next day (Sunday, September 2nd) and will have one week to claim their prize. Needless to say, you will not need to be present to win. Tickets can be purchased in the shop from now until the party is over. All money raised from raffle sales will be donated.

We will be accepting monetary donations and donations of goods and supplies from now until the end of the party. Check out Pet Without Parents to see a list of supplies they are in need of.

Joey Knuckles and High Street Tattoo proudly bring you our Fourth Annual, Ohio’s Best Tattoo competition at the Ohio State Fair. Monday, July 30th, located in the Showcase Pavilion. Registration begins at 12pm and the event runs from 4:00 pm-6:30pm.

Come join Emcee, Levi Cox and the crew of High Street Tattoo and feast your eyes upon the variety of tattoos found amongst the crowds, listen to live music provided by Nick Wig and the Killer Beez and learn a little tattoo history all for you and your families’ entertainment! You could win Ohio’s Best Tattoo!

Event is free to enter.

Our panel of judges will judge tattoos based on:

Best Overall Male

Best Overall Female

Best Black and Grey

Best Traditional

Best Color

Best Large and Small Scale

Please remember the Ohio State Fair is a family event and tattoos will be checked upon registration (No nudity or “suggestive” tattoos, i.e. violent or gang related tattoos).

Preregistration begins today! Stop into the shop and register! Participants will receive a free gift (while supplies last) upon conclusion of the competition.

We are having some personnel changes here at High Street tattoo! Here is a message directly from Owner, Joey Knuckles:

“I have a bittersweet announcement! My good friends and longtime co-workers Biggs and Will Murray are spreading their wings and are opening a new tattoo studio in Powell, OH! I hate to see two such talented and cool artists leaving my team, but High Street Tattoo, as well as all of my shops, has been an institution of helping tattooers grow as professionals and as artists. Helping them take the next step in their careers makes me super proud to have aided in their journey as much as they have in mine. It is just another testament of how respect, integrity and teamwork is the only way to run a shop and building artists up and helping them grow and expand is on of my biggest passions! Who is next?! -Knuckles”

They will be missed around here, but we wish them the best of luck. They deserve it!

If you need to reach either one of them, their emails are as follows:

Biggs – biggstattoos@gmail.com

Will – wmurray473@gmail.com

We would also like to take this time to welcome Myles McCain to the family! Myles has put in the work necessary and proven himself to be able to maintain the incredibly high standard we have set here. Be sure to check out his page on the website and stop in and welcome him properly by getting a tattoo from him!

Along with providing you with some of the best artists in the state, we occasionally like to showcase talented tattooers from around the world. This month we have the pleasure of welcoming Darren Ashbaugh in for a couple of days! Here is a little bit about Darren:

After 4 years in the Army, Darren started tattooing. He had gotten an apprenticeship from a German fellow named Klaus Zimmerer. After work he’d go into the shop in downtown Grafenwohr, Gremany. After a year and a half, he went to the Middle East for Desert Storm. When he came home, he was stationed in Virginia where he worked on fellow Army soldiers. After getting out of the Army, he went home to St. Louis, Moved to Carbondale, IL and attended art college. There he worked a local studio, Lady Hawke Ink, for 3 years and went on to buy the studio renaming it Golgotha Tattoos. Golgotha would eventually close after 15 years in business. Now Darren travels and does guest spots around the world. He also does work out of his private studio affectionately named, you guessed it, Golgotha Tattoos!

Darren will be here from April 19th – 21st. Be sure to check out his Instagram (@darrenash) to see some of his work and contact him directly for availability.

Joey Knuckles presents High Street Tattoo and The Ohio State Fair proudly bring you our Fourth Annual, Ohio’s Best Tattoo competition at the Ohio State Fair. Monday, July 30th, located in the Showcase Pavilion. Registration begins at 12pm and the event runs from 4:00 pm-6:30pm.

Come join Emcee, Joey Knuckles and the crew of High Street Tattoo and feast your eyes upon the variety of tattoos found amongst the crowds, listen to live music and learn a little tattoo history all for you and your families’ entertainment! You could win Ohio’s Best Tattoo!

Event is free to enter.

To see more about the event click here for the Ohio State Fair website for detailed info.

Our panel of judges will judge tattoos based on:

Best Overall Male

Best Overall Female

Best Black and Grey

Best Traditional

Best Color

Best Large and Small Scale

Please remember the Ohio State Fair is a family event and tattoos will be checked upon registration (No nudity or “suggestive” tattoos, i.e. violent or gang related tattoos).

Welcome to the new and improved weekly blog. We will be posting here every week with a wide variety of topics. We will keep you up to date with any events we will be apart of or hosting, interviews with artists for you to get to know them better, tattoos our artists have done the past week and other things to help you guys connect with our wonderful staff and artists! Hell, there may even be some of our favorite recipes on here. We can do whatever we want! I, personally, am very excited to have this level of communication with the people who truly make a difference for us, you guys, our wonderful clients.

If you were not aware, Hell City Tattoo Festival is rapidly approaching. It will be held April 20th-24th just a few blocks away at the Columbus Convention Center. We, of course, will have a booth there featuring Ian Friend (@ifriendtattoos) and Skoty Fox (@skotydont). Be sure to check them out there. This is one of the biggest and most badass tattoo conventions in the country and is not to be missed. Click on the link for more info!

Also very exciting, during the weekend of Hell City, guest artist Darren Ashbaugh (@darrenash) will be joining us! Click the link to check out some of his work and slide into those DMs to make sure you get in with him.

Lastly, I touched on it last time, but we have changed our weekend hours to be able to tattoo longer and more people. Our schedule will remain the same noon – 10pm on Monday – Thursday. However, Friday – Sunday we are open from noon – midnight! Some of our artists days and hours have changed as a result of this, so make sure to check their profiles on our “artists” page to see when each of them are here.

Just want to give you a few quick updates! For starter, we will be working to update the website a bit to feature more from our wonderful team of artists. Be sure to check back regularly to see what we have to offer!

We have extended our weekend hours! We will be open from Noon-10pm Monday – Thursday like always, but open Noon-Midnight Friday – Sunday to give you guys more opportunities to get some great tattoos!

It’s just a couple of days away now, but we are having an art show/party for the March, Short North Gallery Hop! We will be featuring art by tattooers from all over Columbus, free beer provided by @pabstohio and music provided by @_charlestownsend. This will be held on Saturday, March 3rd from 7-10pm or later!

Lastly, we will once again be hosting the Best Tattoo contest at the Ohio State Fair on Monday, July 30th! We are working diligently to make this a fun and great even, as always, and showing off some amazing tattoos! There will be plenty more updates leading up to the even, so please make sure you check back regularly for all of the info! You can see what other contests the Ohio State Fair has to offer by heading to http://ohiostatefair.com/other-competitions/

Hey, guys! Its getting cold out there. That means the summer is over and you no longer have to worry about impromptu trips to the swimming pool, sunburns or vacations to get in the way of the healing process of your new tattoo. Its the perfect time for a new one, if I do say so myself! It also means that the holidays are upon us. Not sure what to get the person who has everything? How about a gift card for a tattoo. We have those! Pick whatever amount you would like. We can even add tax onto the total! And now for the really important part, holiday hours:

Thanksgiving: Closed

Christmas Eve: Closed
Christmas Day: Closed

New Years Eve: Normal Hours

New Years Day: Normal Hours

We will also have some guest tattooers this winter!

First up, Chris Smith (@smithy_btm) from Baltimore will be here November 23rd – 27th.

Then we have Shawn Hannon (@shawnhannontattoos) from New Jersey here from January 5th – 8th.

Last, but not least, Zack Hunter (@southpawtattoos) from North Carolina will be here from January 25th – 29th.

We are also in the process of adding a piercer to our team, so be on the lookout for updates about that!

Hey guys! We are very excited to share with everybody our beautiful expansion of High Street Tattoo! We now have two floors of incredibly talented artists right in the heart of the Short North arts district. The expansion officially opened in the early part of October and we are hosting a grand opening party to coincide with November’s Short North Gallery Hop on Saturday, November 4th at 7pm. There will be a DJ cranking out hot jamz as well as free beer for those 21 years of age and over. All of our artists and management team will be on hand to meet, chat and hang out with all of our old friends and new friends to be made! We are very excited to share the occasion and the expansion with you lovely people! The shop will be open at the regular time that day. Lets party!